VOL 27.
TROOPS CALLED OUT.
The State Militia
Proceedto Homestead.
Governor Pattison Orders the Entire Di
vision of Pennsylvania'! National Guard
to the teat of War in Allegheny Oo.
Over 8,ooo Men in Line.
The entire division of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania was Sunday
night ordered out for d'lty by Gover
nor Tattison. Early in the evening the
governor received the following mes
sage from Sheriff McCleary;
PiTTMiCRn, Pcnnn., July wth, IWH To It -rrt
K. Pnttlton, Oownor, Htirrlnhnrq, Ptnna.i
The situation nt Hoim-Htoad I not Improved.
While Hit Ih quiet mere, the itrlkors ore In eon
tml unci openly express to mo and to tlie public
tlvlr determination that the works bIihII not be
operated unless by themselves. After nuking
all efforts In my power. I have fulled to geeun
a Kisse respectable fiiouvtli in numliers to do
anything, and I urn satisfied that no posse raised
by civil authorities cim do nuythlug to change
the condition or affair, and That any attempt
hyan Inadequate force to restoro the rlirht of
law will only result. In further armed resistance
and consequent loss of lite. Only a largo mili
tary fores will u nublp ". r control inut ters. I
believe If such force Is sent the disorderly ele
ment will be overawed and order will b? re.
s'ored- I, therefore, cull upon you to furnish
me such assistance.
Wll.l.lAM II. MCC'LKAKY.
sheriff.
Immediately on receipt of this mes
sage the governor summoned to the
executive mansion Adjutant General
Greenland, who arrived from Pittsburg
on Keystone express, Major General
George R. Snowden, who came to the
rity on Limited express from his home
in Philadelphia, and Quartermaster
General O. K. McClellan. After a
brief conference the governor issued
the following order :
llARiilKiil'Uii, July 10, 1N1IA William II. Mr
Ceari, Stwrijr if Alltylifinu Couiitu, PlUnliurg,
lyitmi,: Have ordered Major General tieorgn It.
Snowden with division of National Guard of
Pennsylvania to your support at once. Put
yourself In communication with him. Comiuu
nlcatewltb me further particulars.
ltOHKKT E. Pattison, Governor.
The governor supplemented this or
der with the following message to
Sheriff McCleary:
llARKIHBUKil, July 10. Geary R. SiioiMen,
Unjor Orneral CominanaiHO, X. O. I'. : Put the
division under arms and move at once to the
support of the sheriff of Allegheny county at
llomes'ead. Maintain the peace, protect all
persons In their rights under the constitution
and lawi of the State- Communicate with me.
ItoniHT K. Pattison,
Governor.
Sunday night Major General Snow
den issued the following order to Brig
adier General Robert P. Dechart, of
Philadelphia, commanding the First
brigade :
In compliance with orders from the commander-in-chief
you will concentrate your command
la camp at Mt. Gretna by to-morrow (Monday)
afternoon, and there await further orders. But
tery horsed Take with you three days" rations
and aU ummuultlon on hand. First troop,
mounted, will move on tlrst train available on
Pennsylvania railroad bound west.
An order was issued to General
John A. Wiley, of Franklin, comman
der of the Second brigade, to concen
trate his command at a point Major
General Snowden refused to make
public, presumably Homestead, and
there await further orders.
The Third brigade, was ordered to
concentrate at Lewistown and move
westward. Adjutant General Green
land's room at Miss Ross' private
lodging house, on North Market
square, was transformed into the head
quarters of the National Guard of
Pennsylvania. General Greenland,
Major General Snowden. Major Evans,
General O. E. McClellan, Sergeant
Major Worman, of the governor's
staff, and other military officials were
there with a corps of clerks issuing
orders to the commanders of the
varrious brigades and making prepara
tions for mobilizing the troops.
The troops were all ordered to take
with them three days' rations, but this
does not necessarily imply that they
will only be on duty for that period.
General Snowden said that this was
done so that they would have enough
rations while on their way to the
places where they have been ordered
to concentrate.
The order of the governor to Gener
al Snowden ordering out the entire
division of the state guard means that
over 8,ooo men will be on duty ready
to obey the command of General
Snowden. This embraces every regi
ment, battery and cavalry company.
ANOTHER NORMAL SCHOOL
A number of Scranton's leading
citizens are interested in a scheme to
locate a State Normal School in that
City. It is stated that it will be neces
sary to raise about $100,000 by subs,
cription in order to bring about this re
sult. This money will be divided into
i.ooo shares of $ioo each, and every
person who secures a share of stock
will have a voice in the management
of the institution.
THE SCENE OF STRIFE-
THE MEN ARE ORDERLY YET.
THK OPINION SEEMS GENERAL THAT
THERE WILL BE NO BLOOD SHED.
Homestead. Tulv u. The tronna
began to arrive here at 9.45 o'clock
this morning. As soon as the line
was formed with the Secon.l brigade
in anvance tne march to the hills
where the works were located was
started..
The people of Homestead had
several bands of music out and there
was the best of feelinir
over the arrival of the soldiers. Arriv
ing at the Carnegie works the soldiers
immediately surrounded the milU
and mounted guards were placed
arouna mem. 1 he strikers gave the
euards a most friendlv rerentinn
The troops now at the mills include
Colonel Coryell, the Williamsport
soldiers and all of the members of the
Twelfth Regiment.
The Third brigade was first ordered
togather at Blairsvill but went to Greens
burg and proceeded in cars with the
others to Homestead. Several news
paper correspondents were made pris
oners in the cirs last nicht so that
they could not announce the move-
menis 01 tne troops.
It is the general opinion that the
plan of campaign is to install non
union men in the mills and start them
up a few hours after the soldiers . re in
charge.
Mr. Fiick said in Pittsburg this
afternoon that he would put m new
men and attempt to start the mills up
within twenty-four hours atfr the
possession of the plant was secured to
to him by the military. Of course he
will have the support of the troops in
that effort, for such is the real pur-
n,Kfl rif rnlliri" rhpm nut. Prnhnhlv
the leaders of the strikers understand
this, but they dare not let the mass of
the workmen know it. There would
be deadly work if they did know it.
It would be hard work to prevent the
carrying out of their freely-uttered
threats to use dynamite if all other re
sources failed-
TALK OF USING DYNAMITE.
It is undoubtedly true that the men
have provided themselves with great
quantities of nitro glycerine, dynamite
and other explosives, and there are
plenty of desperate ones among them
who would not scruple to blow the
whole $5,000,000 plant sky high if
they thought nothing else would pre
vent its falling into non-union hands.
So the Carnegie people and others
who understand the situation have ap
prehensions for the next few hours
After the troops are in actual possess
ion the danger will not be so great,
through safety will then be gained only
at the price of extraordinary vigilance,
The strikers have canvassed the
situation thoroughly as regarding the
possible use of explosives. They say
there is a dry sewer almost large
enough to walk in which runs from
the river to the very heart of the works
and that if properly charged the
whole plant could be destroyed in a
moment.
Homestead, July 1 2th. The white
wings of peace were hovering over the
city last ninht and there is not an un
pleasant indication to mar the serenity
of the iron regions. The militia is to
be received with open arms by the
mill workers, and special police, one
hundred strong, have been selected
from the ranks of the strikers to see
that no indignity is offered to the uni
formed representatives of the State by
any of the injudicious or hot headed
workmen. The efficacy of this policy
was demonstrated within half an hour
after the adjournment of the mass
meeting yesterday afternoon by the ar
rest and escort to the lockup of an in
temperate striker who questioned the
wisdom of receiving the militia as
friends and brothers and killing the
fatted calf to their honor. The power
of organization was never better exem
plified than in the graceful unanimity
with which the iron workers yesterday
afternoon accepted the suggestions of
their leaders and decided that the
troops should be received as friends
and not as foes, and that in contrast
with the reception to the hated Pink
ettons the militia should be welcomed
by the triumphant blast of trumpets
and the music of the bands.
a mass meeting held.
To all but the pessimist, the conclu
sion is irresistible that the crisis is past
and that Homestead will know hostili
ties no more so long as the military of
the Slate is on the ground and there
is no attempt to smuggle the Pinker
tons into the works. Most people have
concluded that the Pinkertons have
satiated their warlike spirit and are
not likely to provoke further bloodshed
by attempting to occupy the works.
Indeed, the strikers regard the advent
of the troops as the surest indication
BLOOMSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 15, LSU2.
that the private militia of capital will
invade Homestead no more, and much
of the success of to-day's meeting was
due to the belief that the State militia
was ordered to Homestead as much to
prevent the bloodshed that another
visit of the Pinkertons would provoke
as to preserve order in the region.
The mass meeting at Homestead
yesterday afternoon was a most signif
icant one and its developments were
awaited with intense interest by the
citizens on the outside. The meeting
was attended by about 5,000 people
and in this number was about every
one of the number who shouldered a
musket and fought the Pinkertons in
the bloody battle of last week. The
meeting was called to order by Hugh
O'Donnel who after stating that Bur
gess McLuckie would preside, invited
the representatives of the press to the
platform. '"They are the people," said
he, "who have created public sympa
thy for its all over the United States.
They have been our friends." Ap
plause.
BURGESS MCLUCKIE'S SPEECH.
The speech of Burgess McLuckie,
on assuming the chair, was a most sig
nificant one. Although the Burgess
of Homestead, he is one of the most
prominent leaders of the strikers and
shares with Hugh O'Donnell a great
intltiencc over these sturdy working
men. A SPOOK IN CONYNGHAM
Tiie following ghost story is Tinted
by the Ashland 'lch'jram:
"Believers in ghosts are firmly con
vinced that a genuine and frolicksome
specimen o." this class has its home
and plays its pranks along the road
between Montana and Kline's tavern
on the way to Catawissa. The road
at the point where it is said to be en
countered at the ghostly hour of mid
night on almost any night, runs close
to an immense hollow in the moun
tains, and is flanked on the opposite
side by a high embankment.
"A deep gully extends some distance
back into the right bank, and this dark
and lonesome spot is the alleged abid
ing place of the walking spirit in robes
so white that it must have a steam
laundry close at hand.
"The story goes that one time away
back in years gone by a settler built
his cabin at this place and lived there
happily with his family. There came
a destroyer of his peace who stole
away his wife, and left behind the
corpse of the settler, whom he had
killed in a moment of murderous
frenzy. It is the spirit of this long
since departed settler which is said to
play its pranks upon passers by.
"George Thiel, of a point near Cat
awissa, is not a believer in spiritual
manifestations, but at the present time
he is compelled to admit that some
thing much out of the ordinary befell
him at this place one dark, rainy night
during the fore part of last week.which
neither he or any member of the party
which accompanied him have ever
been able to explain.
"According to the story that Mr.
Thiel told, he and his fritnds were
driving slowly along the road at mid
night in a closed wagon, upon a night
when it was dark, and drizzling rain
falling, and the party were amazed
just alter passing the supposed ghostly
retreat, to observe a bright light sud
denly appear shining over the top of
their vehicle upon the road ahead of
the horses as though from a dark lan
tern stationed upon the roof. This
continued for some time and an inves
tigation revealed no cause for the cu
rious appearance, but the light re
mained, and as the vehicle moved for
ward, it, too, kept its position. The
light was a steady, luminous glare sim
ilar to that emanating from an incan
descent electric light, and it kept pace
with the team for a distance of hatf a
mile during which time the horses
were in a perfect frenzy of fear, and
the occupants speechless because of
the unexplained mystery, which after
a while disappeared as suddenly as it
came.
"Others are said to have observed
the same phenomenon at nearly the
same point, but no explanation has
ever been offered."
Took Laudanum aud Paris Greea
Morrison Cartright, an old resi
dent of Berwick died in great agony,
last Friday night after taking the con
tents of a bottle containing laudanum
and paris green. He was at his work
until noon, when he told Foreman
Beishline he could not stand this life
any longer. To this remark little at
tention was paid, however. Recent
excessive dissipation and temporary
insanity are attributed as the cause.
Danville has organized a board of
trade and appointed a committee to
obtain Congressman Wolverton's as
sistance in securing for the town the
free postal delivery system.
OH AIT ABOUT SPEECHES AND
STORIES.
There are a great many men in the
world who cm make good speeches,
in their minds. There are compara
tively few who can make good speech
es, in the minds of other people. As
we sit and listen to another fellow
making a speech or delivering an
oration, or getting off a lecture, or
responding to a toast, we may be
compelled to admit that he is doing
right well, but at the same time we
cannot overcome the impression that
we could do it a great deal better or
at least quite as welL It is a very
easy thing to make funny speeches,
that is when you are alone beforehand,
thinking over what you are going to
say on some public occasion. You
already see your audience convulsed
with laughter at your funny anecdotes,
your telling hits, your pungent wit
and your side-splitting humor, but after
wards when you take your scat and
there has not been a ripple of applause,
nor a shadow of a smile on a single
face all the time you were talking,
and you wonder why, and think it all
over and remember that you have
forgotten to relate your anecdote?,
and omitted your hits, and that your
wit has turned into a doleful, funereal
failure, you are then forced to the con
clusion that it isn't such an awful easy
thing to make a good speech after all.
The fact is there is much more in
manner than in matter in speech
making. One man gives you solid
meat in an easy, quiet, undemon
strative style, and another gives you
froth, and jumps all over the platform,
and roars and rants and tears, and
the latter is the one who nine times
out of ten is considered the orator.
Action on the platform, and even in
the pulpit, often has more weight than
words. With most people the
excitement of the moment is prefer
able to words of deepest wisdom de
livered in a calm manner, which re
quire subsequent contemplation for
full digestion.
A witty nun is not always a witty
writer. Wit is largely spontaneous, and
humorous sayings are those which
come on the spur of the moment I
have heard men who have reputations
as wits, say that they cannot write
funny things because when they sit
down and attempt to grind it out, it
wont come. Many things that sound
very funny when uttered, are very flat
when put in cold type.
On the other hand, some of the
humorous writers are most solemn men
in conversation. They were never
known to utter a joke, but when they
sit down methodically and turn the
crank they can grind them out by the
yard. The sayings of children are of
times amusing because of their quaint
ness and spontaneity, but when they
are repeated by older lips, and especially
if you happen to live next door and
have been compelled to listen to what
Johnny said for the fortieth time, it
sort of loses its edge. Story telling,
like speech making is a natural gift.
One man can tell a funny story so that
you will laugh at it every time if
he tells it twenty times over; another
man can tell the same story in exactly
the same words, and he will have to
tell it twenty timeo over before you can
discover a single smile in it. He
simply knocks the stuffing out of it by
his manner of telling it. There is a
class of people who spoil the pleasure
of a good story by waiting until the
teller has almost reached the funny
point and there interrupt him and break
the point off by telling it in their own
clumsy way. I presume they are the
same people who sit near you at the
theatre and having seen the play once,
they tell their companion what is com
ing next all through. This is highly
entertaining to everybody in the
neighborhood. It is like having some
body tell you in advance just how the
novel in which you are deeply interest
ed closes in the last chapter. I al
ways feel like pounding such people.
But this article does not seem to be
coming to any conclusion, and there
is not any particular moral to it. I
did'nt start out with anything special
in view and having adhered strictly to
that purpose, I close.
Junius Jr.
It is reported that King Alexander
of Servia has decided to visit the
World's fair next ve:tr. He is 16
years and the son of the much talked
of ex Kins Mi an and ex-Oueen
Natalie.
The Swiss national council has
appropriated 120.000 francs ($24,000)
for an exhibit at the World's fair of
the Swiss watch making industry.
One of the novel exhibits in Mach
inery hall at the World's fair will be a
model paper mill. It will be in active
operation and will show all the pro
cesses of paper making.
Tbo Correct Columbus Day,
The recent nctir.t of Congress
changing the date for the natior.al
public school celebration from Oclo
ber 2 1st is a step in the direction of
scholarly accuracy, and it :s remark
able that it should have been so long
overlooked.
If there is to be a national obser
vance of the 400th anniversary of the
discovery of America it should take
place on the date which marks the
true century-point. It is obviously
stupid to await the recurrence of a
date which by reason of arbitrary
changes in the methods of reckoning
time has lost its significance and
does not indicate the true cycle of
years.
Every American knows that Colum
bus discovered this hemisphere on Octo
ber 12, 1492, and at first thought
October 12, 1892, would seem to
mark the 400th anniversary of that
event. But it will be remembered
hat time was then calculated upon a
different basis than is now in vogue.
For many centuries the Julian caler
dar was the accepted authority for all
calculations, although its inaccuracy
was not unknown. In 1582 a refor
mation took place. Gregorian calen
dar was then introduced in Europe,
and this calendar is now used by all
civilized nations with the exception of
Russia, which still adheres to the
Julian method of computing time.
When this reformation occured it was
found necessary todrop ten days from
the calendar 5 and October 4, 15S2,
became October 15, 1582. These
dropped days were the accumulations
of many centuries of erroneous reckon
ing. The Julian calendar assumed
that a year contained 365 1-4 days,
and as this was ir minutes and 14
seconds too long, the error amounted to
3 days every 400 years. The Gre
gorian calendar corrected this defect
by making every centurial year a com
mon year unless divisible by 400,
whereas by the Julian calendar every
year (centurial year included) divisible
by 4 was a leap year. Thus by the
new style of computation the years
1500, 1700, and 1800 were not leap
years.
As previously stated the reforma
tion took place in 1582, and ten days
were suppressed. But as the discovery
of America was previous to the year
1500, which by the Gregorian calen
dar was common, there are but 9 days
to omit. Consequently on October
21, 1892, the sun will occupy the
same relative position to the earth as
on the 1 2th of October, 1492, when
for the first time Columbus beheld
these shores.
For these reasons, together with the
fact that every precedent is in favor of
adopting the "new style" of reckoning,
we favor the change.
The Gregorian calendar was not in
troduced into Great Brtain until
1 75 1, ignorance and prejudice defeat
ing the change up to that time. Con
sequently it has been necessary to
correct the dates of our American
anniversaries which commemorate
events previous to 1751. Washington
was born February 1 ith,but bythe "new
style" his birthday falls on the 22nd,
and that is the day wc celebrate. The
anniversary of Forefather's Day and of
the founding of the city of Boston are
both observed on the corrected date.
It is unfortunate that the Act of Con
gress of April 25, 1890, naming Octo
ber 12th, 1892, as the date for the de
dication of the World's Fair grounds
has not been amended by a change of
date to October 21st. The fair will
practically be a year late, and the de
dicatory exercises should take place on
the true anniversary, which is October
2 1 st. Congress has already shown its
good sense by placing the popular and
general celebration of which the pub
lic schools are to be the centers on the
correct date. It only remains for
Congress to extricate the nation from
the comical predicament of a two
headed celebration of Discovery Day
by changing the Chicago date to cor
rected date it has already set for the
popular public school celebrations.
To Keep Flowers Fresh.
Flowers may be kept fresh for a
long time by putting a pinch of soda
into the water in which they are held.
They should not be gathered while
the sun is shining upon them, but early
in the morning or aftet the sun has
been down for an hour. To revive
wilted flowers plunge the stems to
about one-third of their length into
boiling water. This will drive the sap
back into the flowers, causing them to
become fresh. Then cut away the
third of the stem which has been heat
ed and place the flowers in cold water.
Great Britain, France, Germany,
and, in fact, many other foreign na
tions, are asking, and almost insisting
that more space be granted for their
exhibits at the World" fair.
NO. 28
PERSONAL. '
Miss Annie McKelvy is visiting
Mrs. Dr. Frontz at Montgomery.
Miss Ida Bernhard is visiting her
sister, Mrs,. Voris, at Scranton"
C. C. Trench has gone to Michigan
on business.
Miss Wasley has been visiting in
Pottsville and Shenandoah.
Miss Tompkins of Cleveland, is the
guest of Mrs. N. U. Funk.
Mrs. C. E. Smith of Wisconsin, and
Mrs. R. Ladd of Towanda, are vis
iting at Judge Elwell's.
Elmer E. Derns is taking a vaca
tion, and has gone to Bethlehem to
visit relatives.
T. G. Wells and F. P. Pursel took a
trip to New York and Providenci, re
turning on Tuesday.
Mrs. Dr. Meredith of Danville has
been visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Eycr.
Mr. Paul E. Wirt and family return
ed from their Western trip on Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Elwell and
son Edward will spend next week in
Towanda.
Prof. W. H. Butts will preside at
the organ in St. Paui's church for a
few weeks during the absence of the
organist.
Mrs. Dr. Edward Jacc-by, of
Columbus, Ohio, ami her children, are
visiting at Mr. Tierce 1 uulke's on
Iron stieet.
Dr. J. C. Reifsnyder cf Milton,
Assistant Surgeon of the 12th Regi
ment, has gone to Homestead with
the state militia.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wigfall and
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. McKelvy spent
the past week at Hotel Raymond,
haglesmere.
F. P. Cosper ot Fittsto:i was in
town on Wednesday with his family to
attend the funeral of his brother-in-law,
N. M. Hartman.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wraeg of Iowa,
are visiting their cousins, E. R. Drink
er and family. Mr. Wragg lived in
Bloomsburg forty five years ago, and
has not been here since he left.
The Nimrod Campine Club consist
ing of Masters Carl Wirt, Carl Bern
hard, Louis Bernhard, D. J. Waller 3rd
and Joseph Townsend, are camping in
Grimes' wood near Light Street.
Col. A. D. Seely of Berwick, mem
ber of the Governor's Staff, passed
through here to report for active duty
in the Homestead emergency on
Monday.
One member of the Normal School
has changed her name since the term
closed, Miss Harvey having become
Mrs. O. H. Bakeless. They were
married at Milroy, Pa., last week
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brooke and
children and Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Bit
tenbendcr and children have rented a
cottage at Elk Grove, and will occupy
it for a month. The gentlemen will
be in Bloomsburg occasionally on bus
iness. Rev. P. A. Heilman of the Luth
eran Church will exchange pulpits
with Rev. Ellis Bell, pastor of the
Grace M. E. Church of Williamsport.
Rev. Bell is a very popular pastor in
the city and has a very large con
gregation. Among those who went to New
York last week Thursday on the low Ex
cursion rate, were W. H. Brower,
Geo. Norman, H. G. Sherwood, Dr.
Harter, M. E. Edwards, Miss Mary
Sheep, Miss M. Hower, Miss Lily Ev
erett, Miss Annie Elliott. Miss Mc- .
Reynolds, Mrs. C. W. Miller and
daughter, James Wilson and sister,
Miss Eva Runert and others.
JGltaaSshori BjinL
The controversy in the Milton
School Board has been settled by the
Court dissolving it and appointing an
altogether new set of directors from
each of the five wards.
Since the election of new members
at the February municipal election
but two meetings have been held and
upon each occasion it was war to the
knife. An organization could not be
even effected. When an attempt was
made at the first meeting to elect a
president of the board there was some
peculiar voting and the cry of fraud
was raised, the board being equally
divided, there being ten members and
eleven votes cast. This was but one
of the many little episodes that occur
ed. In the bill and answer filed there
are charges and counter-charges on
the part of each division The Court,
after summoning the entire board to
appear before it, asked numerour
leading questions, and after dissolving
it appointed the new board.
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